Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We're going to get off fossil fuels, no question. We may not do it quickly enough to avoid some pain, and I'm… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was,… — Jim Inhofe Copy Share Image
“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through … a steady increase in carbon dioxide from… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods,… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“And my car back then, a Studebaker as I recall, was powered, as are most of all means of transportation and other… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The world around us is a beautiful, supportive environment for human growth and flourishing. Isn't it amazing how everything we need to… — Carla Johnson Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Even if I had money to invest I wouldn't invest it in oil companies - - or their bankers, suppliers, customers ...… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“We should be innovating tomorrow’s technologies rather than erecting today’s inefficient turbines and solar panels. We should explore fusion, fission, water splitting,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions.… — Jonathan Duhamel Copy Share Image
“In West Virginia, we've been extracting coal longer than anyone else. And after one hundred and fifty years of making other people… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
If we're serious about our kids having a livable world, building fossil fuel infrastructure in 2018 is a sign of deep negligence,… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Nations around the world - including Canada - are working to shift the global economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy.… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have… — John Christy Copy Share Image
The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
